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NY Times, ABC News, Throw Shade on New Yorker Kavanaugh Hit Piece
www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | September 24, 2018 | by Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 09/24/2018 7:31:19 AM PDT by Red Badger

The New Yorker hit piece on Brett Kavanaugh published Sunday night accusing Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, without corroboration, of exposing himself to a female Yale classmate at a drunken dorm party in the 1980s was met with skepticism by the New York Times and ABC News. (UPDATE: CBS News, also. At end.)

Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez.

The Times reported, but buried, that it had spent a week investing the accusation by Deborah Ramirez but was unable to find an eyewitness and that Ramirez had recently told several of her classmates she wasn’t sure it was Kavanaugh.

Judge Kavanaugh’s prospects were further clouded on Sunday when The New Yorker reported on a new allegation of sexual impropriety: A woman who went to Yale with Judge Kavanaugh said that, during a drunken dormitory party their freshman year, he exposed himself to her, thrust his penis into her face and caused her to touch it without her consent.

In a statement, Judge Kavanaugh denied the allegation from the woman, Deborah Ramirez, and called it “a smear, plain and simple.” The New Yorker did not confirm with other eyewitnesses that Judge Kavanaugh was at the party.

The Times had interviewed several dozen people over the past week in an attempt to corroborate her story, and could find no one with firsthand knowledge. Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the incident and told some of them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself.

ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos repeatedly challenged Ronan Farrow, who co-authored the New Yorker article with Jane Mayer, in an interview Monday on Good Morning America. Farrow was forced to admit he had no eyewitnesses but he insisted that people who knew Kavanaugh at Yale said it was “possible.”

Farrow closed the interview by claiming accuser Ramirez insisted she wants to be “fair” to Brett Kavanaugh.

CBS News also challenged co-author Jane Mayer on the lack of eyewitnesses.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christineford; hitpiece; kavanaugh; liberalmedia
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The stories have become outlandish, to the point of mockery.

Kinda like a well known dossier........................


21 posted on 09/24/2018 7:42:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: Yaelle

I guess the bottom line is Ronan is still a pop-culture celeb and not a journalist. He hasn’t gotten a grip on this whole verifying sources thing.


22 posted on 09/24/2018 7:44:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Red Badger
Ramirez, why does that name sound familiar?

Oh, I remeber, the mysterious never located Lucy Ramirez from the Rather fake memo.

Are they going to now say this womans claims are "Fake but Accurate"?

23 posted on 09/24/2018 7:44:56 AM PDT by TruthWillWin ([[MSM]])
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To: Red Badger

I know that Puritanism was not dominant in the 1980s but guys exposing themselves at mixed-company parties like she describes seems to be pretty risky behavior, especially for a student with high aspirations and in an on-campus setting. Guys let the little head do the thinking all the time, but I just wonder if this allegation passes the “smell test” for those who were in college in the mid-80s?


24 posted on 09/24/2018 7:45:00 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Red Badger
Farrow was forced to admit he had no eyewitnesses but he insisted that people who knew Kavanaugh at Yale said it was “possible.”

Farrow is now getting sloppy and producing no relevant facts to back up stories.

25 posted on 09/24/2018 7:45:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Some brilliant FReeper posited on another thread that this is less about Kavanaugh than an operation by Friends of Harvey Weinstein to take Ronan Farrow down once and for
all”.

maybe they think they can take down Farrow and Kavanaugh


26 posted on 09/24/2018 7:46:07 AM PDT by RonnG ( v)
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To: Red Badger
The stories have become outlandish, to the point of mockery.

The fact that a sizeable number of people believe them should chill your blood.


27 posted on 09/24/2018 7:47:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bigbob
guys exposing themselves at mixed-company parties like she describes seems to be pretty risky behavior, especially for a student with high aspirations and in an on-campus setting.

Only if you're a Republican. Dems holding high office have done all that, and more.


28 posted on 09/24/2018 7:48:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Red Badger

Slimes? Wow.


29 posted on 09/24/2018 7:49:02 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Buckeye McFrog

He attempting to be accepted back into the leftist fold after outing Weinstein.


30 posted on 09/24/2018 7:49:51 AM PDT by Lopeover (POTUS needs Republicans, the Midterm Election is about allegiance to the America First agenda!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It makes me mad and sad at the same time.....................


31 posted on 09/24/2018 7:51:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I figured that the media has exculpatory evidence but would not say so. Maybe I was wrong.


32 posted on 09/24/2018 7:51:56 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

OR they know something is about to go down and they don’t want to be caught in the crossfire.................


33 posted on 09/24/2018 7:54:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: 1Old Pro

Hell, anything is ‘possible’......................


34 posted on 09/24/2018 7:55:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yes, it’s a shame. He was fooled by his own political preferences. Geniuses definitely have blind sports re emotion. He is getting chewed out on Twitter, deservedly so, and if Tiger Woods can come back, Ronan stands an excellence chance.

I think if he really wants to be credible, he apologizes for this wholly uncorroborated non-news. I feel I am one of the most unbiased FReepers on this subject because in my emotions I don’t trust or like Kavanaugh from before I knew he even had a penis. So my political slant does not influence my thoughts on this confirmation process. I look at it as a question of fairness and legality and common sense (we don’t go back to childhood to search for misdeeds; we expect evidence; we expect both sides of nominees to be given the same level of scrutiny, etc.).


35 posted on 09/24/2018 8:00:35 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Dilbert San Diego

A bridge too far even for these propaganda rags?

Doesn’t seem possible. Makes me wonder if overnight polling on these ludicrous claims is harming the Left by getting our side - and the middle - incensed over the unfairness of it all. Maybe they’re looking for a way down off the ladder.


36 posted on 09/24/2018 8:00:42 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: jospehm20

I agree that for the upper NYC elite, putting little Ronan in his place is preferred to adding to the Kavanaugh circus.


37 posted on 09/24/2018 8:02:23 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Dilbert San Diego wrote: “Really, even liberal news outlets say this is BS??? Maybe the liberals have overreached on this one, overplayed their hand?”

Maybe the liberals have realized that this is like playing with nuclear weapons. Maybe they realize that uncollaborated allegations like this could also be used against their nominees.


38 posted on 09/24/2018 8:09:19 AM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: Red Badger

Democrats and their once upon a time stories never end.


39 posted on 09/24/2018 8:18:06 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: RonnG

This is also all about discouraging future applicants. Who would want to but their family through that hell?


40 posted on 09/24/2018 8:26:08 AM PDT by binreadin
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